The literature on attrition points to the intake and first therapy interviews as sharing the highest dropout rates. Attrition is said to be related to client, therapist, and type-of-therapy variables. To look further into the intake session with an emphasis on client-therapist and client-clinic interaction variables, clients (N=45) rated their…

Determines that counselors who did not relate self-awareness to counseling received higher client ratings of effectiveness than did counselors who related self-awareness. (Author)

The article examines some of the considerations involved in the development of the job placement specialist in the rehabilitation of handicapped persons. (DLS)

This article describes a model of group counseling with prison inmates. Members assume responsibility for what transpires, and structure is not imposed by the leader. The stages of a typical group are reviewed. Those counselor qualities that engender positive group outcomes are explored. (Author)

Differences in presenting problems and counselor age were perceived as intended. Subjects' marital status was unrelated to any measures. Counselors were judged as most expert, attractive, and trustworthy when dealing with presenting problems that were least intimate. Subjects anticipated greater satisfaction with younger rather than older…

Examined the influence of counselor sex and subject self-concept on students' (N=105) perceptions of counselors. Students heard an audiotape in which a male or female counselor was/was not introduced as expert. Results showed a significant interaction between subject self-concept and introduction but not counselor gender and introduction. (JAC)

Tested three explanations for the differential impact of verbal and nonverbal cues on perceptions of counselor expertness, attractiveness, and trustworthiness: cue availability, vividness, and salience-vividness. Results suggest cue availability is not a compelling explanation for the power of nonverbal communications, vividness accounts for…

Reviews cross cultural counseling research according to given categories of dependent variables: client use, client preference; counselor prejudice; differential diagnosis; differential process; differential treatment; and differential outcome. Research outcomes are examined across ethnic groups, research designs, and research settings. (BL)

Reviews literature on the social influence model, which suggests that counseling is an interpersonal influence process. Discusses the process of counselor social power, causality thorugh reattribution, and influence as a two-way exchange. Suggests future directions for research. (JAC)

Presents an emotional model that describes the sequence of emotions that occur when the expression of feelings is avoided or impossible and discusses its use in counseling Vietnam veterans. Describes prerequisite counseling skills and related information, based in part on personal experience and the comments of contemporary writers. (JAC)

Female snake-phobic subjects were assigned to one of three treatments: warm automated therapist procedure, cold automated therapist procedure, or control. Results showed significantly more improvement among subjects in the first group. (Author)

The present study investigates the relationship of the temporal characteristics of therapists' verbal behavior to the communication of empathic understanding in psychotherapy. (Author)

These findings, along with prior ones from the same investigation, suggest that outcome is affected by the attitudes and beliefs of therapists concerning prognosis for lower-class and severely disturbed clients: therapists who believe they can help such clients can often do so. (Author)